Gay Culverhouse, former executive of the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers and daughter of former owner of the club, Hugh Culverhouse says she has been told she has only six months left to live.

Alan Schwarz of The New York Times met with her prior to her appearance last Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee chaired by Rep. John Conyers (D MI). She explained why she is trying to make a difference right now.

She suffers from blood cancer and renal failure and there is no time like the present for Culverhouse to do as she told Schwarz: ""I watched our team do anything it could to get players back on the field. We have to make that right."

In her opening statement to the committee on Wednesday morning (full transcript, here), she made it clear that she was there to focus on two problems: the conflict of interest inherent in teams' medical personnel determining the readiness of player and incentive laden contracts which don't account for time off the field for injuries.

On the first point, Ms. Culverhouse said: "the team doctor's role is to find a way to have that